Ruling — Medieval Academy

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A turn is made of 6 phases: [1]

1. Deal 5 Learning cards to each player [1]

2. Draft the Learning cards [1]

3. Play the learning cards [1]

4. Scoring [1]

5. Reset [1]

6. Change the first player [1]

1. Deal 5 Learning cards to each player

The first player shuffles the 52 Learning cards and deals 5 cards (face down) to each player.[1]

2. Draft the Learning cards

Each player looks at their 5 cards, chooses one to keep face down in front of them, and gives the other 4 cards to the player on their left.[1] The player then receives 4 cards from the player on their right, keeps one face down, and gives the remaining 3 to the player on their left.[1] This continues until each player has 5 cards face down in front of them.[1] The direction of the draft alternates each turn based on the parchment: in Turn I, the draft is clockwise (giving cards to the player on your left), and in Turn II, it is anticlockwise (giving cards to the player on your right).[1] At the end of the draft, players take the 5 cards they chose into their hand.[1]

3. Play the learning cards

Starting with the first player in clockwise order, each player chooses a card from their hand and plays it face up in front of them.[2] The player moves their disc up the track of the corresponding game board by the card's value (2 to 5).[2] This continues until every player has played 4 out of their 5 Learning cards; the last Learning card is not played.[2]

4. Scoring

Scoring is done game board by game board, starting with the Gallantry game board.[3] Some boards, such as Gallantry, Jousts, and Tournaments, score every turn.[3] Other boards, such as King's Service, score only at the end of specific turns noted on the parchment.[3] The player ranked 1st on a game board is the player whose disc is the highest (most advanced) on that board's track.[3] In the case of a tie, the disc that is on top of another is considered higher, except at square 0, where all players are considered last.[3]

5. Reset

After the game board is scored, all discs go back to square 0 and the Cup goes back in the center.[4]

6. Change the first player

The first player is the player who strikes the most chivalrous pose; they take the Excalibur pawn and start the game.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook · p.4 · O bjective of the game · 1. D eal cards · 2. D raft cards

[2] RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook · p.4 · 3. P lay cards

[3] RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook · p.5 · 3. P lay cards · 4. S coring : · Examples :

[4] RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook · p.9 · I nitial setup : · Phase 3 - playing Jousts/Tournaments cards : · Phase 4 - Scoring : · Phase 5 - Reset :

[5] RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook · p.3

Rule found, game on.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 239 ms · ask 4392 ms · total 4634 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4634 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1276 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1276 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.89717 of 1838 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 12:17 UTC

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	3. P lay cards	p.4	0.048172 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	Phase 2 - Exchanging Learning cards : · Phase 3 - playing the Learning cards : · Phase 4,5,6 :	p.8	0.047619 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	Initial setup : · Phase 1 - Deal 5 learning cards to each player : · Phase 4 - Scoring : · Phase 3 - Playing Jousts/Tournaments cards : · Phase 4 - Scoring :	p.10	0.046394 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	« Karadoc » rules · Phase 2 - Draft the Learning cards : · Phase 3 - Play the Learning cards : · Phase 4 - Scoring : · « Lancelot » rules · Phase 1 - Dealing the learning cards :	p.8	0.045805 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	O bjective of the game · 1. D eal cards · 2. D raft cards	p.4	0.045009 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)		p.3	0.032258 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	Scoring the Gallantry game board :	p.5	0.03125 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	I nitial setup : · Phase 3 - playing Jousts/Tournaments cards : · Phase 4 - Scoring : · Phase 5 - Reset :	p.9	0.030415 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 16 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	3. P lay cards	p.4	#1	0.048172 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)		p.3	#6	0.032258 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	I nitial setup : · Phase 3 - playing Jousts/Tournaments cards : · Phase 4 - Scoring : · Phase 5 - Reset :	p.9	#8	0.030415 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	3. P lay cards · 4. S coring : · Examples :	p.5	#10	0.029418 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	Initial setup : · Phase 1 - Deal 5 learning cards to each player : · Phase 4 - Scoring : · Phase 3 - Playing Jousts/Tournaments cards : · Phase 4 - Scoring :	p.10	#3	0.046394 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	O bjective of the game · 1. D eal cards · 2. D raft cards	p.4	#5	0.045009 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	« Karadoc » rules · Phase 2 - Draft the Learning cards : · Phase 3 - Play the Learning cards : · Phase 4 - Scoring : · « Lancelot » rules · Phase 1 - Dealing the learning cards :	p.8	#4	0.045805 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	Phase 2 - Exchanging Learning cards : · Phase 3 - playing the Learning cards : · Phase 4,5,6 :	p.8	#2	0.047619 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	O bjective of the game · 1. D eal cards · 2. D raft cards	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	3. P lay cards	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	3. P lay cards · 4. S coring : · Examples :	p.5	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)	I nitial setup : · Phase 3 - playing Jousts/Tournaments cards : · Phase 4 - Scoring : · Phase 5 - Reset :	p.9	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Medieval Academy — Rulebook (corpus doc 1276)		p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 239 ms · first delta 1630 ms · total 4634 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 0 ms · retrieval 239 ms · ask 4392 ms · gateway work 4634 ms · total 4634 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3748
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 587
tok/sec: 201.3 tok/sec — 587 output tokens in 2.916 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 38s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 8s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 1206), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.